On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Allen Marsalis wrote:
I have no regrets.. x2 was a big deal in our area (we certainly helped) and being the first 56k provider in our area was a big win for us. USR made that happen.. I liked USR.. It's 3com that I feel ill about.
Agreed here too. Getting my TC rack was a big win for us, and having it still is. We were first with x2, first with v.90, and our v.90 *still* walks all over my competitions' PM-based dialup pools. And we're still the only provider in town doing ISDN, which is the best thing you can get here aside from a dedicated line. (and we're served by Sprint, who has some really good ISDN BRI pricing...only about $5 more than two regular phone lines and flat-rate to boot...not to mention that inbound PRIs are about 1/2 the cost of CT1's).
Do we use 3com switches or routers? no we use cisco, foundry, etc..
I'm actually a fan of their switches. But one doesn't have the same problems...either a ethernet switch works or it doesn't. If it's broken, either it's under warranty or it's not. No contracts, no tech support needed. But yeah, we're using Cisco routers...but even that may change. Am looking at all the PCI-based WAN cards nowadays and great strides in Linux networking (or the already good networking in the *BSD stuff) with great interest. Not to mention the product brochure I got the other day...PCI based card that works like a HDSP...plug in a PRI and get 23 modem ports available to your Linux or NT box. Definately on my list of 'keep an eye on' products. - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.